Along the Frost River

Above three pictures are just a pool of water at a tiny water falls where you enter Octopus Lake.

Here's the falls entering into Octopus Lake, not much of a falls, really.

..and here is Octopus Lake. I wouldn't recommend going out of your  way to be here  unless  you  are  intent on seeing no one. We went through this area after a mile or two down the Frost River from Frost Lake. Frost River is not really a river, at least, it is not a river in August, just a stream or brook. At places it is  not much wider than your canoe. In all, Jimmy and I spent about 10-12 hours to go just the 7-8 miles between Frost and Whipped Lakes. At one point it was so slow going that we were freaked out thinking that we were lost because we we were still heading south when the map showed that we should have been going west.What eventually made it worthwhile is shown in the next blog entry, namely, the bull moose that appeared for us in Whipped Lake. If you take the Frost River route, expect a lot of tugging, pulling, scrambling and leeches.

This is a wider spot in the Frost River at a portage just a bit south and east of Afton Lake. If you  can, try to get the campsite on Afton Lake. There's not much else to choose from. But Afton does have a nice site.